Brian: was some of the fallout with this friday executive order, was it preventable? i think you raise an excellent point. there are two separate issues here. both the legality and the constitutionality of what the trump team did last friday. that is not in question. 8 usc section 1182f gives the president this type of authority to make this type of decision on immigration for the good of the country. he has that authority. congress also is vested with its own legislative powers over legislation. he has no constitutional or statutory impediment to do what he did. however, this could have been rolled out and maybe telegraphed in a better way, and i think it could have been. it doesn t mean you have to announce to the world what they were doing. but i think it was important for the trump team to understand they are going to be at war with the media ....